Important: Prior to installing the DPM, make sure that you have a Domain User account that is already a member of Domain Administrators Group.You can install DPM by using a local administrator account. However, most configuration tasks require domain user privileges.

  • On the [Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007] screen, click [Install Data Protection Manager] option.

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  • On the [Microsoft Software License Terms] page, review the license agreement. If you accept the terms, click [I accept the license terms and conditions] option, and then click [OK].

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  • If the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 has not already been installed, the DPM setup will begin to install Microsoft .NET Framework prior to other steps.
  • When the [Welcome] screen appears, click [Next]. Now DPM begins a prerequisites check for all required hardware and software.

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  • When the [Prerequisites Check] screen appears, wait while the setup wizard checks the system to verify that it meets software and hardware requirements. If all required components are present, the setup wizard displays a confirmation as follows. Then click [Next] to continue.

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Note: If one or more required or recommended components are missing or noncompliant, the setup wizard displays a warning or error message.

A warning indicates that a recommended component is missing or noncompliant. Review the warning and determine whether to resolve the issue now or continue with the installation. If you choose to continue with the installation, plan to resolve the issue as soon as possible. (E.g. If you haven’t installed sufficient physical memory in the server, that will indicate as a Warning during the DPM setup.)

An error indicates that a required component is missing or noncompliant. You must exit the wizard and resolve the error before you can continue with the installation. (E.g. If you haven’t installed the Windows Powershell 1.0, that would indicate as an error.)

  • On the [Product Registration] screen, enter your Company information, and then click [Next] to continue.

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  • On the [Installation Settings] page, in the [DPM Program Files] section, accept the default folder, or browse to the folder in which you want to install DPM. In this example I have changed the location to the [Drive D] (Remember, the installation partition must be formatted with the NT File System (NTFS)). In the [SQL server settings] section, select the [first option] if you wish to continue the installation with SQL Server Edition which comes with the DPM setup or select the [second option] to locate the Database in to an existing SQL 2005 server. Then click [Next] to continue.
  • In the [Space requirements] section of the page displays space availability on the specified destination drives. If you choose to change the installation folders, verify that the selected drives have enough space for the installation.

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  • On the [Security Settings] page, specify a strong password for the Microsoft$DPM$Acct & DPMR$ServerName Local user accounts, and then click [Next] to continue.

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Note: For security purposes, during installation, DPM Setup creates the Microsoft$DPM$Acct account, which the DPM Writer service uses. DPM sets the system administrator (SA) password for SQL Server to the same password that you specify for the Microsoft$DPM$Acct account.

  • In the [Microsoft Update Opt-In] page, select [Use Microsoft Update when I check for updates (recommended)] option. This will bring all the available updates from Microsoft Updates web site. Then select [Next] to continue,

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  • On the [Customer Experience Improvement Program] page, if you want to provide Microsoft with information about your hardware and software configurations and usage patterns, click [Yes, I want to participate anonymously in this program (Recommended)]. Since this setup I’m running on my TEST network, my preferred option is [YES]. However, this action may be differ as per the Company IT policies, if exist. Then select [Next] to continue,

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  • On the [Summary of Settings] screen, review the summary of installation settings. If you’re satisfied with the information, then click [Install] to install DPM. If you need to change anything, click [Back] to move to the previous screens.

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  • When prompted, insert the Windows Server 2003 product CD, and then click [OK]. Setup prompts for the Windows Server 2003 CD or Windows Server 2008 DVD (depending on the host OS) because the Internet Information Services (IIS) and the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) in Windows 2003 or Single Instance Storage (SIS) in Windows 2008 are not already installed on the DPM server.

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  • After some time another windows will prompt, now re-insert the DPM 2007 product DVD , and click [OK] to continue the DPM installation.

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  • When the installation is completed, the [Installation] page displays the installation status. Click [Close] to finish the installation. If everything goes well you will see “Data Protection Manager installed successfully” message in the [Installation] page.

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  • When the [Data Protection Manager] message box appears, click [OK] and reboot the DPM server.

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  • Finally, make sure that you install the Service Pack 1 for DPM 2007 product. This would bring some new features that work with Hyper-V, SharePoint 2007, Exchange 2007 & many more. The SP setup files are available to download via the following link.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dpm/dd296757.aspx

Important: After the DPM 2007 SP1installation, you must install the following software patches in order to fix some of the known DPM issues.

KB963102: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963102

KB970867: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970867

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